A Kombat Blog! Huffing! and Puffing! trying to blow the house down! Spitting in the face of these badlands! Raging against the dying of the light! Preaching to the converted? Converting the preached to? A challenge to the intellect? or Intellectually challenged? Totally Random! Creative Chaos! Is it art? music? Politics? or Yarbles!?

Friday, 25 July 2014

I was away camping in The Peak District
a bit of r'n'r, only piece of technology I took with me was a
transistor radio, and a camera, so I heard the news of the shooting down of the
Malaysian plane over The Ukraine, and the continued blood shed in the
Gaza Strip. Wrote a few notes down in my notebook and was gonna
write a piece when I got home, but....have had such a nightmare week
at work, where those at the top think everything smells of roses,
when it's bullshit, and have their heads buried in the sand while the
workers get fucked up the arse, and when the shit hits the fan they
aint gonna be the ones getting covered in it. As a result of this I
haven't had the mental energy to finish the piece, so here are the
notes from my notebook that I started typing up last Sunday before
the week from hell at work, but hey I'm not living in Gaza and have
had no loved ones blown up so as the war in my mind goes on I
shouldn't really grumble.

Another 'incident' involving a
Malaysian Airlines plane, this one didn't disappear, it was shot from
the skies above a war-zone, leaving the wreckage highly visible for
the waiting media to broadcast to the world..

The world watches in condemnation at
the treatment of the murdered passengers, the majority of whom are
Dutch.

No responsibility, but plenty of
denials. Russia's name keeps cropping up.

Calls for sanctions are met with a luke
warm response cos Russian oligarchs money is aiding economic recovery
across Europe, and many countries rely on Russia for energy supplies
no one wants to bite the hand that feeds them even if it is covered
in blood.

I bet arms deals are still being struck
with Russia; Warfare makes the world go round.

I wonder what the response would be
like if 200 Americans had been on board?

It's easy to forget that the Americans
don't mind shooting down passenger planes, rewind to 1988 (I think)
when they shot down an Iranian civilian airliner, killing all on
board.

Israel....give the Palestinians their
land. Britain, America, France get over the gas chamber guilt and
then perhaps Hamas will stop firing their rockets. The numbers of
dead says it all....more Palestinians than Israelis have been killed!
Who cares who started it, it's time to end it!

No better than savages, just with more
sophisticated weaponry. Warfare makes the world go round.

Sunday, 13 July 2014

Since I last wrote about Roscoe Vacant
he has released a new album and a tape. For the album No Attack No
Decay Roscoe has returned to his roots as a solo preformer. In 2008
he released the Escape From Doom Valley (Live EP) and a year later
Nothings Gonna Change, but in 2010 he was backed by the Gantin'
Screichs for the brilliant spikey and post-punk sounding Reckurdt.
No Attack No Decay features several tracks from this, which stand
naked and stripped to the bone. This is 'Acoustic Punk and Angry
Pop!' full of passion and vitriol. Nine songs where the words mean
something, these are songs about the small and big political picture;
From domestic dysfunction to global drama; As Baghdad burns plates
are smashed in the kitchen of a broken home where culture is
delivered in shortbread tins to sanitised young lovers who bought it
all from the liars and thieves who will not lead us anywhere because
nothing is gonna change, not unless you make it! These are songs of
love, pain and betrayal on several levels. If misery loves company
then it needs Roscoe Vacant for a companion, because these are also
songs of hope that are more real than likes of Frank Turner and Jake
Bugg.

The tape finds Roscoe backed by Lo-Fi
legends The No-Men, covering three songs by the arch avant garde
glam/punkster that is Steve Treatment, who also contributes some of
his own musings on the flipside of this brightly coloured yellow
cassette. In a world of mass production and instant downloads It's
good to see the ethics of DIY culture is alive and well, thanks to
the good people at Topplers Records. It is also good to see that
there are still artists out there pining their hearts on their sleeve
and playing it for real. The album and tape are both available here, the limited number of lovingly hand crafted
physical copies have all sold out, but they are sill available as
downloads.

For a bit of background to No Attack No Decay, the demise of the Gantin' Screichs and how he found himself working with Steve Treatment, I emailed Roscoe, and this is what he had to say.

“Roscoe Vacant & the Gantin' Screichs started in 2010 and we released the album "Reckurdt" in 2011. Our lead guitarist Ross Gilchrist left in 2011 for personal reasons, but he and I are still really good friends. From then on we went in a different direction, moving away from grunge into more country punk type stuff. We got a fiddle player and a new guitarist in 2012 and put out a video for our first recording with that band in January 2013 "Conrad Brooks" (on Youtube just now). The band continued for a few months but it kind of petered out - again mostly personal and interpersonal reasons. I'm still really good friends with everyone in the band but none of us really want to do it again. Releasing the EP "No Attack/No Decay" in 2013 was an attempt to go back to basics and why people enjoyed my stuff in the first place - solo acoustic punk rock. It was also a means by which I could get the song that inspired the title out - "Exit Strategy". I split up with my fiancee of 9 years in Feb 2013, so that had a baring on the band too. Being able to get back on the horse and make some music was liberating."

“I've been a fan of Steve's for about 5 years. I knew Allan from the NoMen because we have mutual friends but also because he was in the legendary Scottish folk punk band Nyah Fearties from the late 1980s early 1990s. The Steve collaboration just came out of that. I wanted to cover some of his less well-known songs and songs he'd only really demoed or played with his band The Ticket Inspectors in the late 1980s, so I recorded the 3 songs on the cassette. It was very spontaneous.”

From fiddling their expenses to
fiddling with kids, some of our MP's past and present have no shame
in abusing their power, or should I say the power that we the people
give them. In a true and pure Democracy they would be there to serve
us, not themselves, and certainly not to spy on people, behind a
smokescreen of fear of terrorism. “If you've done nothing wrong
then you've got nothing to hide.” Is that why dossiers re Child
Abuse in Westminster have 'been lost' or can't MP's be trusted to
look after any information securely. Anyway....Just who decides
what is wrong? The people that control the machinery of the state,
that's who! Our politicians, that's right the very same people who
have a perverse view of right and wrong. So....when the politicians
are on the 2015 General Election campaign trail pleading for votes
and promising everything, don't believe a word they say, and don't
let them kiss your children!

While shit goes down in Britain, over
in the Middle East the Israelis and Palestinians bomb the fuck out of
each other, where is the Peace Envoy; former Prime Minister Tony
Blair? Sack this self serving cunt now! If he was on performance
related pay, he'd owe us. Wait up he does....we are still waiting
for an explanation as why Britain got involved in the war in Iraq,
don't tell me that they've lost the results of The Chilcot Enquiry,
or are they just re-editing it, because it's findings are right; Our
leaders took us into an illegal war against a threat of terror which
wasn't really there until they started bombing Baghdad, now there are
terrorists everywhere and because of this policies and laws have been
drafted and created that proport to protect our freedom when they
actual take it away. Tony Blair shouldn't just be put on trial for
war crimes, but also for crimes against human rights.

Monday, 7 July 2014

Bad Breeding may apply to a lot of the
yoof of today, but not to these four lads from my home of Stevenage,
a place where in their words “nothing really happens except
nothingness itself.” I can't argue with that. I've lived in
Stevenage most of my live and the only things that have happened are
when people have got up off their arses and made them happen.
Respect! to Bad Breeding for keeping the musical match alight and
giving the world another name (along side Fields of The Nephilim,
Scum of Toytown and Chron Gen) to remember Stevenage by instead of
just Lewis fucking Hamilton and a couple of football players whose
names escape me.

Bad Breeding have already been featured
in the NME radar page, and played on BBC Radio One by Zane Lowe. Their debut single Burn This Flag b/w Age
of Nothing is released by Hate, Hate, Hate Records in August as a
limited (300 copies) 7”Vinyl or Digital Download.

Burn This Flag is a two minute Molotov
cocktail of anger and frustration waiting to be hurled over the
barricades and like a suicide bomber with a suitcase full of Semtex;
it will blow your fuckin' head off! Age Of Nothing is a slightly
longer assault that chops, changes and charges right at ya knocking
you off yer feet then kicking you in the face. Bad Breeding are a
blast of pure molten and brutal Punk Rock, in the vein of Discharge, Conflict and the UK Subs, but with a sound that is totally their own. This is
angry music for angry times.

The single can be ordered here from Rough Trade Records and the band can be found here at their website.

Saturday, 5 July 2014

In
a time where people are living for the now with little thought for
the future; an age of all style and no substance instant access self
gratification, Electric River are a storm of fresh air, they have
taken their time, walked their own path and worked hard, as a result
they have evolved into something very special; full of style and substance. Their album Faith and
Patience is a life affirming and uplifting listen; pure and perfect,
righteous rabble rousing Rock'n'Roll, they are on the cusp of
greatness; with positive reviews of the album poping up in the pages
of Kerrang, Classic Rock, Vive Le Rock, Big Cheese magazines, and
even The Sun newspaper! Electric River are destined to be another
band that really matters. Their time is now!

Enough
of what I've got to say, It's time to read what Electric River's Vocalist/Bass player Sponge has got to say....

What would you be doing if there was no Electric River?I think it would be different for each of us, that’s what is great about being in a band together since being kids. We all lead our own lives outside the band but are very much like brothers, everyone has their own traits and; things they like to do. I’m pretty sure we’d all be playing music though,that runs through all of our veins.

Are you going to be revisiting any more of your 'old songs' for future releases? Never say never, there are a lot of them! But right now we are concentrating on completely new material to follow up ’The Faith and Patience’. But it is very early days at the moment, we tend to write around 40 demos when getting an albums worth of material together.

Any more acoustic/stripped down versions of your songs planned?Possibly… we’re going to be releasing some singles over the summer and have talked about what we are going to put on as b-sides/extras. Again a lot of the initial ideas for songs are written on acoustics when we are just trying to piece together what we call ‘flows’ or ‘rounds’, to make sure the melodies and basic skeletons fit together nicely for our songs.

Which ER song do you enjoy playing most? and what one goes down best with the audience?I really like This Garden Will Grow as it has a personal connection with me and my life growing up in Ashford. I love the fast pace ending too, but there are so many. Watersong is a great one when the band is really in the zone, it's weird, it's like we are on some strange sonic level together. Obviously Keep The Engine Burning has been going down a storm and Hold Your Nerve seems to be the common ground with most audiences around the country but we just love playing, if the audience is going off, it just drives us even more.

Favourite filmsI watched ‘Wolf Of Wall Street’ recently and absolutely loved it, I am now a fully fledged Di Caprio fan. People probably think i’m mental but I’ve never really fully appreciated him as an actor before WOWS.

Favourite booksI read a lot of biographies, mostly music related but I also really like Ross Kemp’s books. I’ve just got ‘Things The Grandchildren Should Know’ which is E from The Eels memoirs, I’m really looking forward to delving into that. But it’s hard to pick a favourite, I think one of the greatest rock n roll books has got to be Ozzy’s, its so fucking funny.

Favourite albumsLiterally couldn’t pick, there are way too many!

Favourite TV programThat's really hard, I think TV has changed so much over the last 5 years. I barely ever watch everyday TV but love a good series, some of my favourites have been Shield, Dexter and of course Breaking Bad and Sons Of Anarchy, but there are so many these days, its hard to find the time to catch em all!

Should Tony Blair be put on trial for war crimes? (Discuss)I read Arnold Schwarzenegger’s book recently and what was interesting to find out that at the end of the day there were so many things he wanted to do for California and how fucking surprising it was that though he was ‘the guvnor’ how many people around him had to clear his every move, how it wasn’t his soul decision and how one thing would effect another parties / company / states political gain/misfortune, so he was told no or forced to do things he didn’t want to really do. What I’m trying to get at is Tony Blair was probably a face to a lot of puppets, pulling a lot of very different strings. I’m not defending him, he’s a well educated person with his own brain and political interests but if he was put on trial, they need to bring in every single person that was involved with the Iraq war and trial them too and get the whole thing out on the fucking table. I was really too young to fully understand the full ins and outs of our fucked up dealings with the middle east at that time and I am not a historian neither politician, I play in a rock n roll band! The relationship we have with the middle east is completely fucked up and I know a lot of people out there are calling for Blair to go on trial. So I would say from the point of view that we are ‘Suppose’ to live in a democratic society and Blair ‘has nothing to hide’,what harm could it do? I think the general public would get some closure from it and they deserve that.

The Clash or The Sex Pistols?The Clash for me, I love both but The Clash were around for longer and developed into something much bigger than the initial band. I would say London Calling was a pinnacle album that ER listened to in the early years and though true ‘Punk’ fans usually don’t admit liking that album, for me it was one of the best things to come out of that era. So many diverse influences on one great record.

Rolling Stones or Beatles?So hard… of course The Beatles just have such a great catalogue of songs and I think most kids are introduced to The Beatles at such a young age, it almost feels like part of your heritage. But The Stones definitely had that more grittier darker thing going on, which generally I would dig more if those bands both came out tomorrow… Can’t really decide, its a draw gentlemen.

Has the response/reaction to Faith and Patience surprised you?I definitely have been surprised at the reviews, I don’t really know what we expected. We just wanted to make an album we were extremely proud of, so the kind words have been a nice cherry on the top really. I’m just glad people are connecting with it and can’t wait to get back out and tour it.

Is Britain in a good or bad political, social and cultural place at the moment?Britain is an amazing place. It’s a cultural melting pot, however, if we believed what we read in some of the papers, then I think we’d be inclined to feel scared of that. Our perception of the country however comes from travelling it in the back of a van and with that we’ve generally always met really good people. Class struggle still exists and up the other end of the scale so too does corporate greed and corruption. A political shake up is due and I think most people are now very aware of it…but that’s a healthy thing. There’s only so long apathy can last.

Will you be voting in the 2015 General Election?If it means it will stop other parties like the BNP or UKIP getting a run at things then yes, but that’s about as much use as I can see from my vote the way things currently stand.

What are ER's plans for the future?We’re currently working on a bunch of music videos, and hoping to tour later in the year. We’re also writing for our next follow up to our new record.

Have you got an Electric River manifesto?It’s not really a manifesto but more of a saying - ‘You’re only as strong as your weakest link.'

All that is left to say is ....Thanx to Sponge for taking the time to answer my questions, and if you haven't done so already check out Electric River over at their Website orFacebook page, and get yerself a copy of Faith and Patience.

KEEPING THE BLOG FIRES BURNING!

SEALED WITH A KISS!

BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE

SOLIDARITY!

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BANG, BANG ! The writings on the wall....

....but the Great Wall of China aint gonna be long enough to line all the Mutha Fuckers up against!

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I DON'T GIVE A SHIT WHAT YOU HAD FOR YOUR BREAKFAST OR DINNER!

The Instagram Stazi informants share every aspect of their lives with fellow twittering facebook 'friends' millions starve while millions show each other what they had to eat.

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This Note Pad Says....

FIGHT THE POWER

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OUT NOW....

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“Many palaces have tumbled, many walls have been knocked down, and many more will fall, many more will lose the ground. They’ll pretend to understand and they’ll make a few amends but we’ve seen it all before and we’re not taking it again....RISE UP!"

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....on Easy Action Records, Johnny Thunders sublime 1983 acoustic album Hurt Me. Includes a free bonus disc of the albums showcase gig in London (Click on image for more details.)

CHECK THIS SHIT OUT! Before The Blog there was The Band THE DRUG PROWLING WOLVES

“Trust, faith, good, bad...non of it matters. All you ever do is what you have to do. Follow your desires, fulfil your needs, escape from pain. That's all there is to it.” - Kevin Brooks.

"Things you use; things you possess, and are possessed by; things you build with - bricks, words. You build houses with them, and towns, and causeways. But the buildings fall, the causeways cannot go all the way. There is an abyss, a gap, a last step to be taken." - Ursula Le Guin.

FUK U PUTIN!

POWER TO THE PUSSY!

FUCK THEIR OLYMPIC DIAMOND JUBILEE FLAG FEST!

If it is what it is, then why is it what it is?
The truth is….it’s all lies!

Searching for beauty amongst all the ugliness, where all you find is a barbed wire caress.

Forget about what you haven't done, and think about what you have done! Forget about what could have been, and think about what could be!Forget about what you can't do and think about what you can do!
Don't forget....WE HAVE THE POWER....Think about it!!!!

CONSUMERS OF THE WORLD UNITE....THEY HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT THEIR CHANGE!

WHILE SOME ARE LIVING THE DREAM, OTHERS ARE DYING IN THE NIGHTMARE!

Available @ ITunes.

“At the edge of a revolution / That’s exactly where we stand / And though we could seize the moment / We aspire to wear the brand / And we take our place in a profane state / With the common herd the beautiful and damned / I’ve had enough of this grey sky thinking / I’m coming in to land.” - TV SMITH

RAISED IN A PRISON

Click the above image to find out more about this gross miscarriage of Great British Justice. IT'S CRIMINAL! Gary was now been released from prison (March 2012) Justice will only be served when he has cleared his name!

DON'T JUST THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX / SMASH THE FUCKIN' BOX!
"Look at the outside. There's a new direction we've got to find." - Chelsea

If you hear anyone talking about getting a 3-D T.V tell ‘em to Fuck Off! and get a life instead. If flat screens, HD and plasma weren’t enough. As for those giant ipad things, for fucks sake…..WE DON’T NEED THIS SHIT!

Stay Free / Stay Strong / Keep On Keeping On!

All things connected / All things rejected / Looked to the left / Looked to the right / In the middle of the road / Waiting for the riot //

Whoever is in power; they need opposing. Only when there is no power for them to be in can the opposition cease!

Without hope and faith we are nothing!

"You drag yourself to work. Drug yourself to sleep. You're dead from the neck up, by the middle of the week." - Joe Scratch (Mercenary Clash)

PO-ATE-TREE KORNER.

Just like ducks being fed / All we get is stale bread.Just like cattle at the water / Fattened up and sent for slaughter.Just like the beasts at Noahs Zoo / We're kept in line two by two.Just like the clouds on a windy day / It's easy to get blown away.But just like a bird in a clear blue sky / I spread my wings and start to fly.

HIGH STREETI took a walk and what did I seeMiles and miles of misery.Down in the town they offer heavenFor all your pounds.Get back home open up the bagThen get the feeling you’ve been had.Just more shit you didn’t needConsumption feeds their fix for greed.

A Thought.........

For fucks sake....

10 Years on and we've been more than cheated, but I don't see Rock'n'Roll taking on the Government now!

If this story was true.....

...then I'd weigh a fucking ton!

In the beginning is the scream. We scream.

"When we write or when we read, it is easy to forget that the beginning is not the word, but the scream. Faced with the mutilation of human lives by capitalism, a scream of sadness, a scream of horror, a scream of anger, a scream of refusal: NO." - John Holloway

The Wall

"There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared; an adult could look right over it, and even a child could climb it. Where it crossed the roadway, instead of having a gate it degenerated into mere geometry, a line, an idea of boundary. But the idea was real.........Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on." -Ursula Le Guin (In The Dispossessed)

‘Excuse me,’ they cry, ‘you can’t fight it; twice two is four! Nature doesn’t ask you about it; she’s not concerned with your wishes or with whether you like her laws or not. You must take her as she is, and consequently all her results as well. I mean to say, a wall is a wall, etc. But good God! What have the laws of nature and arithmetic to do with me, when for some reason I don’t like those laws or twice two? Naturally I shan’t break through the wall with my head, if I’m really not strong enough, but I wont be reconciled to it simply because it’s a stone wall and I haven’t enough strength to break it down. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (In Notes From Underground)

BRUTHA BLOGGERS WITH THEIR FINGERS ON THE BUTTON.

OLD SKOOL CUT 'N' PASTE

The Archmullah Of Canterbury

THE TWO HEADED BEAST

We're living in its legacy!

"I will shatter the power of the mighty, of the law and of property."

How did Gordon Brown run the country?

Just Like that!

THE DEVILS RIGHT HAND

Check out the state of Thatchers hand. This was the hand that signed the Poll Tax Bill and signed away workers rights and soldiers lives amongst other things. Now it is turning into a cloven hoof. (check out the picture with her next to Brown over on the main part of the blog, cos for some reason this picture has distorted and made her look even more like a monster than she was, if that's possible.)

'I can't believe this pain and misery are all in aid of a new society.' - Null&Void

ER!

That wasn't supposed to look like that. Ah! Fuck it never mind, call it art.

BROTHERS IN ARMS

Revolution is alive'n'kicking in 2007 Britain, courtesy of 'crackpot Cornish extremists' AKA The Cornish National Liberation Army who are taking their fight to the owners of second homes who come from out of the county. Dunno 'bout that gun though, only damage it looks like it could do is to themselves.

'I myself believe, perhaps on insufficient grounds, that the common man will win his fight sooner or later, but I want it to be sooner and not later - some time within the next hundred years, say and not some time within the nest ten thousand years.' - George Orwell (Homage to Catalonia,1938)

The powers that have for centuries been engaged in enslaving the masses have made a thorough study of their psychology. They know that the people at large are like children whose despair, sorrow and tears can be turned into joy with a little toy. And the more gorgeously the toy is dressed, the louder the colors, the more it will appeal to the million-headed child. - Emma Goldman (Anarchism and Other Essays)

'It was not desirable that the proles should have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working-hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances.' - George Orwell (1984)

'Like Anthony, she wished at times that she had not been presented with this sudden freedom of choice. It had felt safer, when they had been blinkered by sickening anxiety, walking the narrow path, unable to risk a glance to right or left. Now, they stood in a flat and featureless plain, older, wiser but somehow diminished.' - Margaret Drabble (Ice Age)

'The formula works. He stumbled on the first and last truth about the leisure society, and perhaps all societies. Crime and creativity go together, and always have done. The greater the sense of crime, the greater civic awareness and richer the civilisation. Nothing else binds a community together. It's a strange paradox.' - J.G Ballard (in Cocaine Nights)

The proletarian dictatorship...has today grown into a frightful despotism and a new imperialism, which lags behind the tyranny of Fascist states in nothing. - Rudolf Rocker(1973)

'Brothers and SistersI wanna see a sea of hands out there.Let me see a sea of hands.I want everybody to kick up some noise.I wanna hear some revolution out there, brothersI wanna hear a little revolution.Brothers and sisters, the time has comeFor each and every one of you to decideWhether you are gonna be the problem,Or whether you are gonna be the solution.You must choose, brothers, you must choose.It takes 5 seconds, 5 seconds of decision.Five seconds to realize that it's time to move.It's time to get down with it.Brothers, it's time to testify and I want to know,Are you ready to testify?Are you ready?I GIVE YOU A TESTIMONIAL, THE MC5 !!!!'

THOSE WHO CAME B4

What would Hardie and Pankhurst make of New Labour and The Spice Girls? Is this what they fought for?

WHY IS BRITAIN SUCH A HATED NATION?

THIS MAN IS A THIEF!

For the last 10 years he has been stealing our money with his red briefcase. Only in a STALINIST TOTALITARIAN DEMOCRACY could a man like this become Prime Minister.

Who the fuck are........

Watch this space and find out. You'll be sorry.

If yer into The Mob and Zounds this is a must have. Available from: diamondDCactus.com

'Welcome to the desert of the real'

29/7/29 - 6/3/07

MPFree!

Available from: http://www.carbonsiliconinc.com/music/mp3.aspx

ANOK

'Anarchism in all its guises is an assertion of human dignity and responsibility. It is not a programme for political change but an act of social self-determination.' - Colin Ward

'A line of poetry is a chance to get rid of all the filth that clings to this accursed language, as if put there by stockbrokers' hands, hands worn smooth by coin' - Hugo Ball (1916)

BUllSHit

'Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison' - Henry David Thoreau

THATCHAAAARGH !

'No amount of education will make women first-rate politicians. Can you see a women becoming a prime minister? I cannot imagine a greater calamity for these islands than to be put under the guidance of a woman in 10 Downing Street.' - Margot Asquith

4 REAL !

'People should realise what the level of violence is like in most peoples lives. It's sad that working class resentment is always turned on itself. Nobody seems to realise that'

'So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything'

THERE ARE NO ANSWERS, JUST MORE QUESTIONS.

THERE'S A METHOD IN MY MADNESS

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'Look away....it's nothing to do with us'

A celebration of eveyday life, the excitement of the mundane. No reality TV cameras here, this is 4 real. What you see is what you get. THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT.